ESL Medium Quiz -
What Do You Know? - General Knowledge (Answers)
Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “What Do You Know?” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “General Knowledge quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
General knowledge is an important component of crystallized intelligence and is strongly associated with general intelligence
'What do you know?' Well, we hope you know increasing amounts of English... but what's your General Knowledge like? Let's see!
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Yes ... and if you are living or staying here, we wonder whether you've seen any of them (and if so where, and in honour of whom?).
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It would help you 'get a grip on our culture' if you managed to find some of these.
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Brunel was a remarkable man. He master-minded the building of the Great Western Railway (westwards from London) to Bristol and Cornwall. At one point along the main route he designed the Box Tunnel, which at almost 3km was the longest tunnel ever built by that time (1841). The tunnel faces in a particular direction, and it is said that when the sun rises on Brunel's birthday (9 April), its light shines straight through the tunnel!
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Thirteen is considered to bring good luck in some cultures, but not in Britain, and the date 'Friday 13th' is considered especially unlucky by many people.
Meanwhile, the geometry involved in designing and building the big wheel is rather simpler using the number 32, which of course is in the binary series (1,2,4,8,16,32 ...). |
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Yes, that's where the 'Fab(-ulous) Four' came from!
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Whether or not your own country has a king or queen, Britain has had this tradition for hundreds of years, and on the whole, most British people are proud (or, at least, tolerant) of the Royal Family. The flag is used to mark the fact that the King is in residence at one of his big houses.
In common with many countries, we have the tradition of flying a flag 'at half-mast' (the Americans call it 'half-staff') as a mark of public respect when someone important has died. |
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These are the usual regional names; check them with an atlas, or online!
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'Horn' is the right instrument (this word takes us right back, through the days when horse-drawn coaches had a metal horn or trumpet-like instrument to give a signal; to the days when people blew through an actual horn taken from a dead animal, because it was the right shape to make a clear sound).
Only the times in Answer 2 are correct, according to the Highway Code. |
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The Welsh flag has on it a red dragon!
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English may be a widespread language, but Mandarin Chinese is more common as a mother tongue.
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